Derivatives Market Quotes

The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

The billionaire founder of investment firm Elliott Management was one of several investors who warned financial ministers in 2007 that a crack in the housing market could cause huge problems for the banking industry.

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.

Massive runs on short-term debt helped trigger the Great Recession.

Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.

AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

Do we have to regulate derivatives? Yes, we do. 'Cause when I did this in my investments, frankly, no one knew who could pay who. But derivatives have an important place in our economy.

A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.